From Bloomberg TV
The Tech Behind China’s Great Firewall
UC Berkeley School of Information’s Steven Weber and Bloomberg’s Jordan Robertson discuss the impact of censorship on Chinese society with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.”
Cory Johnson: The goal of this is to keep Chinese citizens from seeing everything that is out there on the Internet. Are Chinese citizens patently aware of all of this?
Steven Weber: They know perfectly well; they go to particular websites, they need that police person who shows up and says that they are not supposed to be at this website.
They are aware that the internet is censored.
But the question is, how much of a difference does it make at this point. There is no evidence that there is a brewing sense of resentment among the Chinese public, that they really want their government to change that policy.